Bride and Prejudice (2005)

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C+

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2 hrs. 00 min. The determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four beautiful daughters while there's a lavish wedding party in town. Right away, the smart and headstrong Lalita (Aishwarya Rai) announces she will only marry for love, giving her mother nightmares. Then Lalita meets the wealthy American Will Darcy (Martin Henderson) and sparks immediately fly. But is it love or hate? Darcy comes off to Lalita as an arrogant California snob. Lalita looks to Darcy like a small-town Indian beauty who knows nothing of the world. Alternately enchanted by and suspicious of one another, Lalita and Darcy nearly fall prey to assumptions, gossip and a comedy of errors . . . until pride is humbled and prejudice overcome so that love can triumph.
Release Date: February 11th, 2005 (NY/LA).
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexual references.
Distributor: Miramax Films

Cast and Credits

Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Daniel Gillies, Naveen Andrews, Namrate Shirodkar
Directed by: Gurinder Chadha
Produced by: Gurinder Chadha, Deepak Nayar
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Critical Consensus

Critics Reviews Average Grade: C+

Boston Globe, Wesley Morris
"...excruciatingly petty in its handling of racial identity and cultural fidelity." more... C+
Chicago Tribune, Michael Wilmington
"...if you're in a tolerant or adventurous mood, [it's] very entertaining." more... B
E! Online,
"...adorable, joyful and sweet." more... B
New York Post, Lou Lumenick
"Jane Austen purists and hard-core fans of Bollywood musicals probably won't find Bride & Prejudice their dish of curry..." more... B-

Bride and Prejudice does not seem to be starting in Canadian theatres on Feb 18th as prev indicated. Cinemaclock.com lists Feb 25th as starting date. It is listed for all major Canadian cities including Ottawa, Montreal, Winipeg, etc.

:l

ol: we will have Pathe dvd by then

Pathe DVD of a pathetic movie

I love that Dragun!!

I did see a very good original dvd of Balle Balle!! May be I can buy and send one for rana!

It is by SONYBMG.CO.IN!!

Hindi version: Balle Balle!!

Both the HIndi and English version that have been released in India are by SonyBMG.

I agree! It is Pathetic, hugely uninspired, insensitive film by chadha

DVD! No comment Sanjay, atleast it was anamorphic lol.

Film..kahan se shuraat karoun!!

Chadha has churned out an utterly rubish and ridculous product by any standard. Hindi film's crap candy floss style, or Hollywood mature style, or her own BILB style.

But if Ebert liked it for whatever reason! God help Chadha!

Call Chadha opportunistic or what, it appears so long as she does not get over her Rai fixation she is not going to be able to deliver a hit in recent times......B&P was ok...but just about....it had its clever moments when it was poking fun at Hollywood(though Chadha chooses to call it a tribute). It worked to a certain extent but in the end it was sans any soul!

And after this she's making MISTRESS OF SPICES also with Miss Plastic Face.....well we all know the result dont we...sight like Ram Gopal Verma's fixations, Chadha seems to have her very own now !

Looks like, it did not materialize. Aish's official?? web site has no mention of this appearance. Other appearances are listed.
http://www.aishwaryaworld.com/index.html

Indiafm news, dated Feb 10, had said, "will soon make an appearance on the renowned Oprah Winfrey show".
http://www.indiafm.com/scoop/05/feb/1002ash/index.shtml
If it didn't appear at the time of B&P US premiere, then no chance now.

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BTW, Canadian news papers have lots of publicity reviews and big news paper adverts one week in advance of B&P release here. At the rate of this publicity and wide release, even a worst of the worst case scenario will get a huge Box Office #s as compared to B&P costs.

Nope not kidding at all....IMHO she is just that....no more, no less.

Aishwarya or no aishwarya, I will prefer my american desi film to this expensive shit of chadha!

Thank you for allowing me the opinion.....but suggesting that i get my vision checked is a tad out of place I would think....I could ask you to perhaps get your taste rectified, no? That would be deviating from the decorum we all try hard to maintain here.....i shall leave it at that

check out all the PLASTIC on her face on the 2nd disk extras of veer zaara premiere !!!